You wonder why ace tumblr seems to be so involved in fandoms? Because ace tumblr is a fandom. They’re the sexuality fandom.
They fancy themselves marginalized by society, like nerds and geeks and gamers and slash fans. They feel left out of mainstream society, what the “popular kids” are doing, and they form together to self aggrandize and feel superior but also inferior for being different.
And much like potterheads can’t imagine anything worse than being called muggles, ace people can’t imagine anything worse than being called straight.
Their uniqueness is the only thing they have. Calling them straight is calling them mundane, average, normal, accepted. It flies in the face of what they stand for which is ~band together and be your different self~
Which isn’t a bad message but it’s nothing at all like the decades of hard work the lgbt community has done to make society marginally safer for us.
They don’t relate to the “normies” and they’re insulted by the comparison, because their identity is built around that perceived deviance from the norm. By the way, that’s not the same as when lgbt people build their identities around their shared characteristics (because we’re oppressed).
And they definitely see gay people as “normies” because well they hear about gay people all the time, so they must be mainstream. And likewise, when gay people insist that ace is not kweer, they see these “preps” trying to tell them what’s what.
They’re incredibly jealous of gay people, but they also think that homophobia is either not as big a deal as gay people say, or that it’s not as relevant as it used to be.
But anyway, ace tumblr is a fandom. They’re those nerds who think that it’s still the 80s and that they’ll never be accepted for “who they are”. That’s why their rhetoric is always so melodramatic, they see every contradiction as bullying, bigotry, what have you.
The only difference though, is that this fandom managed to infiltrate an unrelated group of people and have started to rewrite history or just blatantly not care about history in order to ~~~validate~~~ themselves.
